Judicial Coup D’etat In Nigeria, By Femi Aribisala
The upshot of all this is that it is a waste of time casting votes in any future presidential election. We just went through the worst presidential election in Nigeria’s history. To add insult to injury, we have now been assaulted with the worst judicial verdict in the history of…
Nigeria and the Question of Value Added Taxes, By Posi Olatubosun and Olaniyi Olagoke
...perhaps the FIRS could increase VAT on luxury items to 15 per cent, and leave the rate at 5 per cent for the other items. Proposing a uniform increase on VAT rate across board may be a lazy approach to fiscal policy management, and may make Nigeria to be further…
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Nigeria: Restructure Or Rupture, By Austin Emaduku
Nigeria stands on a faulty structure and it is the structure that is holding it down. Address it and many other things will fall into place, gradually but progressively. The current federal structure that is defined by the concept of sharing does not only breed indolence but is also the…
Revisiting “Zoning and Rotation”, By Edwin Madunagu
In place of the present office of the president, let there be a Collective Presidency or Presidential Council of six equal members, each member representing a geopolitical zone. The tenure of the Council should be four years and the headship within that tenure should rotate between the members every eight…
Seun Onigbinde’s Dagger Through The Heart of Civic Activism, By ‘Fisayo Soyombo
...any critic who so caustically criticises a government, as Onigbinde has done, should stay away from it. To accept an appointment from such a government is to throw a dagger right through the soul of social criticism and the intellectual contestation of ideas. By accepting this appointment, Onigbinde desecrates the…
Competing Public Narratives V. Co-optation By The Current One, By Uddin Ifeanyi
Even in the face of years of co-optation by a venal state, of some of the best minds out of civil society, folks still insist that it is better to serve incompetent governments from “inside” than to (painfully) develop both a new public narrative and the structures that will aid…
Buhari, Atiku Before the Great Tribunal, By Festus Adedayo
You would think it was a scene from Geoffrey Chaucer’s classics, The Canterbury Tales and its tale of a group of pilgrims travelling from London to Canterbury to visit the shrine of St. Thomas Becket. Members of the Election Jury (EJ) have journeyed from earth to Heaven and are standing…
The Gains of Ugwuanyi’s Rural Development Strategy, By Louis Amoke
The governor’s policy direction, which became the fulcrum of his administration’s success story, made it possible that citizens/communities in Enugu State who have not felt the positive impact of governance for many decades did so in an ambiance of peace and harmony. Recently, the chairman, House of Representatives committee on…
Obedient Children and Children of Disobedience (1), By Femi Aribisala
Healing is the children’s bread, but the children would rather eat cake. Jesus saw Simon and Andrew and said to them: “Come after me and I will make you fishers of men.” (Matthew 1:17). “Immediately” they left their nets and followed him; no questions asked. He also saw James and…
Kinship With Robert Mugabe, By Owei Lakemfa
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a normal human being. But to the West, he was an enigma. He was born in racist Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and spoke up against racism and for democracy. That made him an enemy of the state for which he spent over a decade in prison.…
